Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On the LUG, Doug Herr drooled... >And the R users among us can't help but wonder what the R10 will >be... if they can cram the digital guts into an M, I'll bet they can >do the same to the R8 body shell. What's the emoticon for drooling >with anticipation? > >Doug Herr My "spies" tell me that the R10d (which, I understand, is to be Leica's next project, if the M8d (or whatever it's to be called) is a success) is to be built in an R8/9 shell, but with all the film guts removed, so that all the DMR stuff will fit into the shell... should be no big problem. Rumour has it that focus confirmation is planned, as well. The R11d (assuming both the M8, M8 and R10 are successes) is to cram it all into a smaller, R4-through-7 size shell. Drool on, my friend! Cheers! --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt